Witness: Man exposed himself near daycare center

(KMOV.com) – A north St. Louis woman told News 4 she recently saw a man masturbate while children were getting off a school bus.

GIna Berry News 4 the man exposed himself near a daycare center and then exposed himself again at a bus stop as kids were getting off a bus. Berry told News 4 she is concerned the culprit may do something worse.

“If you're sitting there next to a school stop, you could snatch one of the children, that's my biggest concern," Berry said.

Berry told News 4 she witnessed one of the alleged incidents as she was walking home Thursday. Berry said she saw the man masturbating inside an SUV as kids were getting off a bus on Cote Brilliant. She also told News 4 the same man masturbated near a daycare center on Vandeventer three weeks earlier. Berry said she thought the man had stopped to ask for directions.

"And so I turned around, he rolled his window down and then he showed me his penis and he started masturbating and he was smiling so I said ‘Oh my God’ and it made me nervous," Berry said.

Berry described the suspect as a white man who is in his fifties, with short and curly gray hair. She said the man drives a black four door Acura with Minnesota license plates.

Police told News 4 they are monitoring the area where the alleged incidents occurred.